Word: comical
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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BOSTON THEATRE. 7.45 P.M. Matinee, Saturday, at 2. The "Princess Toto" will be continued until further notice. It is a bright comic opera, written by Mr. Frederic Clay; the libretto, by Mr. Gilbert, is clever, as we expect everything from his pen to be. The romantic Princess Toto is afflicted with a complete want of memory; this leads to many curious complications, when she successively runs away with a party of bandits and a band of Indians, and is pursued by Prince Doro and by Caramel, both aspirants to her hand. Miss Braham's acting as the Princess is good...
GAIETY THEATRE. 8 P.M. Matinees, Wednesday and Saturday, at 2. To-night and to-morrow, Tony Denier's Pantomime Troupe give "Humpty Dumpty" in a very amusing way. Next week, "The Very Merry Mariner," a comic opera, which was first brought out in German in New York as "Der Seecadet." In English, under the title "The Royal Middy," it has proved very successful...
PARK THEATRE. - 7.45 P.M. Matinee, Saturday, at 2. Mr. Booth continues to draw large houses, notwithstanding the attractions of the comic operas. To-night, he gives his wonderful impersonation of the Fool, in the "Fool's Revenge," for the last time. Sat. Matinee, "Don Caesar de Bazan"; Sat. evening, "Richard III." March 22 (last week), "Macbeth"; 23d, "Hamlet"; 24th, "Richard III.": 25th, "Richelieu"; 26th, "Much Ado about Nothing"; 27th, Matinee, "Ruy Blas"; 27th, "Merchant of Venice" and "Taming of the Shrew." On the 29th, the Florences will be here in the "Mighty Dollar...
PROF. C. C. EVERETT will lecture next Monday evening, in Boylston Hall, on "The Comic...
...remaining lectures under the auspices of the Philosophical Club will be given at Boylston Hall, on Monday evenings, at 7.30 P.M., as follows: Feb. 25. Prof. C. C. Everett, "The Comic." March 1. Mr. F. E. Abbot: "Philosophy the Guide of Life." March 8. Prof. G. H. Palmer: "Progress in Philosophy." Tickets obtainable from members of the club, and at 45 Holyoke...